Welcome you to this primetime edition of washington journal. House Speaker Pelosi outlining a new stimulus plan. The price tag, 3 trillion. Votes this friday. Live on cspan. We will get the details later this hour with a wall street journal congressional reporter. A leading Public Health expert on what is next as some areas of the country begin to slowly reopen. The impact this virus is having on native American Communities with representative deb haaland of new mexico. Our phone lines are open. We want to hear from you. If you are a medical professional, please dial in. We would love to hear from you. Good tuesday evening. We begin with the official numbers courtesy of john hopkins university. Worldwide, the number of cases, 4. 25 million. The death toll in excess of 291,000. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen. She is the visiting professor at George Washington university. Today it was announced the Washington Post new opinion contributor and Baltimore City Health Commissioner
We will get the details later this hour with a wall street journal congressional reporter. A leading Public Health expert on what is next as some areas of the country begin to slowly reopen. The impact this virus is having on native American Communities with representative deb haaland of new mexico. Our phone lines are open. We want to hear from you. For those of you out west if you are a medical professional, please dial in. We would love to hear from you. Good tuesday evening. We begin with the official numbers courtesy of john hopkins university. Worldwide the number of cases, 4. 25 million. The death toll in excess of 291,000. Joining us from baltimore is dr. Leana wen. She is the visiting professor at George Washington university. Today it was announced the Washington Post new opinion contributor and Baltimore City Health Commissioner from 2014 to 2015. Dr. Wen happy to be with you. Host i want to begin with new projections new 4, the withy august death toll could exceed 147,000.
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He spoke about the Trip Administration blocking u. S. Ambassador gordon from testifying at an impeachment inquiry today. That, republicans give their response as well. Good morning. We were informed an hour and a half ago by the attorney for the investors the state department would refuse to allow him to testify today. This was after conversations well into yesterday afternoon and evening with the state Department Legal advisor where there was no indication the ambassador would be a noshow. Not only is congress being deprived of his testimony, the people are being deprived of his testimony. Hasre aware the ambassador Text Messages or emails on a personal device which was provided to the state department, although we requested this in the abbasid are, the state department is withholding those messages. Messages are deeply relevant to this investigation and the impeachment inquiry. I want to explain for the public the significance of this witness and significance of the decision evidentl
The Trump Administration announces new rules on migrants crossing into the us, it means children could be detained indefinitely. Could these speu detained indefinitely. Could these spell better communication . I will you into the best and the worst. Hello. The queen was ready for a grand dinner. The welcoming billboards were up in copenhagan. All the security was in place for the state visit of donald trump to denmark. Except now its off. Apparently in a fit of pique, because donald trump cant buy greenland and the danish Prime Minister said the idea was absurd. So what was something rather silly has now become a serious rift with a key a key nato ally, a country that sent close to ten thousand troops to afghanistan to support americas war there and lost 43 soldiers in the mission. Danes are understandably upset. And perhaps it wasnt even refusing to sell greenland that annoyed mr trump it was the way the danish Prime Minister rebuffed his idea. All they had to do is say, no, wed rathe